AN ELDERLY couple were threatened at gunpoint and bundled into the back of a car before being forced to withdraw cash for a gunman, police have revealed.

The couple who live in Lowton woke up to a man forcing his way into their home, between 3am and 4am on Thursday 16 March 2017.

He was armed with a gun and a knife.

The man demanded money from the pair, who are in their late 70s, and then bundled them into their own black Landrover Freelander before driving them to a cash machine on High Street in Golborne Town Centre.

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He forced them to withdraw hundreds of pounds, telling them he needed the money for his dying daughter.

He then took them back home, kissed the man’s wife on the hand and fled in the Landrover towards the East Lancashire Road.

Minutes later, the car was seen travelling at around 70mph before it collided with a roundabout and flipped over.

Officers are hunting Andrew Evans, 26, in connection with the robbery and kidnap in Wigan.

Detective Inspector Paul Rollinson of GMP’s Wigan Borough, said: “This prolonged and harrowing ordeal has left this innocent couple shaken and petrified after being violently confronted in their own home.

“It is extremely important that anyone who knows where Evans tells us at the earliest opportunity.

“I’d like to remind people that anyone who knows where Evans is or anyone who is harbouring him and neglects to tell us, will be committing an offence.”